Apollo vs. Salesloft

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apollo
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Apollo is an all-in-one sales intelligence platform with tools to help users prospect, engage, and drive more revenue. Sellers and marketers use Apollo to discover more customers in market, connect with contacts, and establish a modern go-to-market strategy. Apollo's B2B Database includes over 220M contacts and 30M companies. Teams leverage Apollo’s Engagement Suite to scale outbound activity and sequences effectively. Finally, Apollo's Intelligence Engine supports the user's go…
$0
per month
Salesloft
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesloft is a provider of their eponymous sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue. The Modern Revenue Workspace™ by Salesloft is presented as a place for sellers to execute all of their digital selling tasks, communicate with buyers, understand what to do next, and get the coaching and insights they need to win. The vendor states thousands of the world’s most successful sales teams, like those at IBM, Shopify, Square, and Cisco, drive more…N/A
Pricing
ApolloSalesloft
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ApolloSalesloft
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per month per userNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ApolloSalesloft
Considered Both Products
Apollo
Chose Apollo
Cheaper than SalesLoft. More internal data when sourcing prospects within Apollo App.

Falls short to SalesLoft in relation to stability. Used SalesLoft for 2+ years and might have had 1-2 outages. Apollo before their switch from Azure to Google cloud had outages every other …
Chose Apollo
Salesforce.com: I used this as my sole form of outreach at a previous job of mine. In my mind, Apollo is a much easier and more automated way to reach out. Apollo actually has a Salesforce integration too, in case you'd like to use both. I like Apollo better because it is just …
Chose Apollo
We tested both Outreach and SalesLoft. SalesLoft felt like an incomplete product, and Outreach drastically increased their rates at our contract renewal. They spend a lot of money in hosting big conferences like Oracle, and less time developing the product.
Chose Apollo
It was chosen before I arrived at the company. Either way, Apollo is the best available tool on the market based on the features and services it provides.

There is a lot of room for improvement in the UI as it is not as intuitive to manage as it seems initially.
Chose Apollo
While Apollo is unique in the ability to combine both the sales acceleration and contact info data into one platform. We found each of these more specific alternatives to be more accurate and robust than Apollo.
Salesloft

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ApolloSalesloft
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo
9.0
11 Ratings
14% above category average
Salesloft
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Ratings
Advanced search9.711 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.911 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality8.811 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.911 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo
8.7
11 Ratings
11% above category average
Salesloft
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Ratings
Contact information8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.910 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo
8.5
11 Ratings
11% above category average
Salesloft
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders8.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo
9.7
6 Ratings
21% above category average
Salesloft
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Ratings
Sales email templates9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
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ApolloSalesloft
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.5 out of 10
Groove
Groove
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Demandbase Sales Intelligence Cloud
Demandbase Sales Intelligence Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
Groove
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
ApolloSalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(30 ratings)
7.6
(219 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(143 ratings)
User Testimonials
ApolloSalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
Best suited for contact discovery on LinkedIn or for that matter any website, but it works best on LinkedIn. It saves tons of work, you can simply select the complete list of people you want to contact and put them directly into an email sequence. It is a little difficult to find contact info on other websites.
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SalesLoft
Salesloft was great if you were sending out an email to prospects or clients that needed to go to more than 10 people. I loved using salesloft for mail merges going to over 100 people, because it helps you personalize those emails but still get them all out in a quick and organized manner
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Pros
Apollo.io
  • Allows users to easily add new prospects to database without much manual effort at all
  • Allows you to make cold calls from different area codes that are relevant to where your prospect is located
  • Allows A/B testing for emails so you can figure out which ones are gaining the most traction
  • You can also find prospects based off of title, company, technologies, etc
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SalesLoft
  • User-Interface: I think it has a great layout and is easy, friendly to use.
  • Cadences: These make it super easy/efficient to organize your prospects and customers.
  • Email: The email features are great which make it easier when you can have certain templates to choose from or snippets.
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Cons
Apollo.io
  • Their customer service is just terrible. You get an assigned account manager but 9/10 times they wouldn't know what you wanted and/or how the product works or how to fix it. Vast majority of the time it was a canned response that made you question if they read the message, or if they read it and did not understand a word.
  • The software was relatively buggy and lacked features that were promised upon signup. They seem to have some large corporate clients and if you aren't one none of your bug submissions, feature requests, or concerns will be addressed.
  • Their growing quickly so they seem to be very understaffed which I believe caused many of the issues above.
  • The data, while good, can quickly run out if you're looking for specific types of leads. If you're looking for something generic like Managers at companies between 10-5000 people, you can pull leads all day every day. However if you're looking for a specific industry, specific title, and specific location - don't count on having an endless supply of leads (or even really enough to use month after month).
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SalesLoft
  • With great tools comes great responsibility - you NEED training and enablement for this tool.
  • Being able to get a dialer phone number in a desired area is spotty, some of our major markets never have a number available in that area code.
  • It'd be great if we could change the Person layouts - there's information that we'd like to display and we're limited to just showing a few custom fields.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
SalesLoft
The renewal really depends on who the client is. SalesLoft works for some clients better than others.
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Usability
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
SalesLoft
SalesLoft is a fantastic product that will be extremely helpful to any Sales Rep looking to organize their information and stay one step ahead. While it has its shares of quirks and bugs it proves to be an awesome tool for anyone that is in the sales industry.
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Support Rating
Apollo.io
I received excellent support at any time I opened up a ticket. But I would add to it that the tool was very self-explanatory, so there wasn't much need for support. With Outreach, we have a closer relationship with our CSM because of the intricacy in things like SFDC task mapping.
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SalesLoft
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
I have also looked into and tried Hunter.io and Lusha, and to be honest, I shouldn't compare them with Apollo. I have found Apollo to be so easy to integrate and use with all of my prospecting that I haven't really even tried out the other two. I bet I could find some useful things by using Hunter.io or Lusha as well, but there is honestly no need since I can do everything I want and more with Apollo. I would just be wasting time trying to figure out another platform when I can be focused on growing my own business with Apollo.
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SalesLoft
we used Yesware mainly to create template emails and to see the opening of our emails. SalesLoft is winning by far as the product is much more complete, allows more automation, calendar functionality and so on. Our company selected SalesLoft because it was recommended to us and it has honestly changed my daily job.
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Return on Investment
Apollo.io
  • Generated a lot of expectations that were not real when we needed them
  • The ROI was positive but we decided to stop using the tool
  • We loved how easy to use it was and how easy it was to interact with the Support team
  • There is room for improvement in the video tutorials - they were from old versions of the software that would not be useful for the version at hand
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SalesLoft
  • Improved Productivity - saving time on admin duties like booking meetings or sending emails at the "right" times each week.
  • Increased email responses - seeing when prospects open my emails and contacting them shortly after is a godsend, especially because there is a new Seismic integration that allows me to see how long they viewed supporting documents or proposals.
  • Opportunity Tracking - the stages and tags that are under each person in SalesLoft allow me to review all of the actions I've taken with a prospect without having to dig through old email chains.
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ScreenShots

Apollo Screenshots

Screenshot of Find every prospect. Uncover high-intent contacts in your market.Screenshot of Connect with every contact. Orchestrate multi-step sequences at scale.Screenshot of Optimize your sales strategy. Unlock efficiencies and opportunities across your entire workflow.Screenshot of Apollo B2B Lead Database - Access data on more than 250M people and companies.Screenshot of Apollo Engagement Suite - Automate personalized messages across your entire pipeline.Screenshot of Apollo Intelligence Engine - Improve your revenue strategy across your workflow and boost efficiencies.